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Re: Dead and dying technologies
« on: December 19, 2004, 03:13:14 PM »
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And thats not even mentioning that with a optical pickup you can play even old broken stonecakes. Swedish radio bought a pair of advanced swiss recordplayers just for that.
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Re: Dead and dying technologies
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2004, 03:39:13 PM »
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KennyR wrote:
The floppy disk: Standard 1.44 Mb but actually capable of around twice that, floppies just don't hold anything near the space we need today. Flash cards, USB sticks and packet-writing CD writer software have made them obsolete. Many PCs now are not sold with a floppy drive at all.

It was the USB-memory that finally did it.

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The CRT screen:.
Forgot OLED that is gonna take away the last advantages of CRT brigthness and angel.


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The VCR:
It gets integrated to a computer system. Because frankly harddiskrecorders is expensive and cheap dvd-recorders is crap.

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Analogue broadcasts:

"Silent keys" in CB-amateur magazines. Analog is literaly dying.

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Can anyone think of any more technologies that have been around for ages but that we're likely to see disappear in less than a decade?


The CD-ROM: It´s in the same position floppys was a few years ago, around only because it´s bootable.

The oilburning boiler:Its too expensive. And it´s not becoming cheaper..
The electrical home heating:It´s already dead.
3G mobiles:People like mobiles with actual coverage :lol:
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